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ByteDance organisation

Named in 28 reports across 16 stories - 7 Aug – 29 Oct
7 Aug 202629 Oct 2026
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Closest companions, sized by how often they share a report with ByteDance. Lines between the outer names are their own relationships - names that appear together even without ByteDance.

Brazil and TikTok share 2 reportsAlabama and TikTok share 2 reportsJustice Department and US share 2 reportsTikTok and US share 2 reportsDoJ and TikTok share 1 reportJustice Department and TikTok share 1 reportDoJ and US share 1 reportChina and US share 1 reportAnthropic and China share 1 reportAnthropic and OpenAI share 1 reportMeta and TikTok share 1 reportByteDanceTikTokTikTok - 12 shared reports (organization)USUS - 5 shared reports (place)ChinaChina - 4 shared reports (place)AlabamaAlabama - 2 shared reports (place)AnthropicAnthropic - 2 shared reports (organization)BrazilBrazil - 2 shared reports (place)DoJDoJ - 2 shared reports (organization)Justice Dep…Justice Department - 2 shared reports (organization)MetaMeta - 2 shared reports (organization)OpenAIOpenAI - 2 shared reports (organization)

The stories

Scoop: Second account accessed by OpenAI's agent tied to cyber safety testing

557 outlets4 reports name ByteDance29 Jul – 30 Oct

Meta told to pay another $567m in New Mexico child safety lawsuit

202 outlets2 reports name ByteDance6 Aug – 29 Oct

BYD’s first humanoid robots; Brazil named biggest buyer of Chinese cars: 7 EV reads

78 outlets1 report names ByteDance5 Aug – 29 Oct

Scoop: DOJ, TikTok settle for $400 million in children's privacy suit

33 outlets8 reports name ByteDance21 Aug – 27 Aug

Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature

15 outlets2 reports name ByteDance11 Sept – 9 Oct

ByteDance targets mega AI model nearing Anthropic’s Mythos, FT reports

4 outlets1 report names ByteDance7 Aug – 12 Aug

ByteDance’s Zhang Yiming tops China rich list with US$99.7 billion as AI fuels fortunes

2 outlets1 report names ByteDance27 Oct

Meta bans TikTok ads on its platforms in US, Japan and other countries

2 outlets1 report names ByteDance9 Oct

White House Lifts Ban on TikTok From US Government Devices

2 outlets1 report names ByteDance11 Aug

Chinese video AI models beat US rivals in visual quality, but lag on safeguards: HKU study

1 outlets1 report names ByteDance26 Oct

ByteDance Case Signals Tough Road Ahead for Big Tech in Europe

1 outlets1 report names ByteDance15 Oct

ByteDance nears chip supply deal with MediaTek for data centres, Bloomberg News reports

1 outlets1 report names ByteDance15 Oct

Who keeps naming them

South China Morning Post11Channel News Asia4The Hill2Anadolu Agency (AA)2Novinky (Czechia)2Axios1The Guardian World1BBC News World1Al Jazeera English1Die Zeit (Germany)1N1 Info (Croatia)1Google News - Europe query1

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